We've
been having great weather, and of the summer fall weather all week
long and I've really taken advantage and of tried to be out in the
weather is much as possible. Tuesday was such a day temperature
almost in the 70s I had an Assist meeting finally and I had traveled
in on public transit, as usual, and I had been early enough so I
could go the small pastry shop next to the Assist offices and grab
some coffee or maybe user accessible bathrooms which I desperately
appreciate.
I
grabbed my coffee and wandered towards the front door of the a little
shop and noticed a fancy dressed fellow outside with what looked like
a basketball that was rolling around. I couldn't tell for sure if
this fellow was somehow related to the ball are a homeless guy
looking for something I wasn't sure. I got closer to the individual
and realized the two folk were owners of the ball. The ball was a
spherical device somewhat larger than a basketball but made of
plastic and had to wheels embedded on the bottom. It was kind of a
slick looking operation by still couldn't figure out what the
interest was. So I watched a minute or two. The kid who is fancifully
dressed is obviously a sales rep and the “basketball with a
personality” was a device would seem to trail after the sales rep.
It was kind of cute, the device followed the guy like a little
dog/puppy. I couldn't figure out how the system worked though. I was
a bit taken back because although the device which I shall call R2-D2
looked a little cheap at least the wheels did in my estimation. I
still was totally interested in the idea of the concept. Individual
informed the gathering group that R2-D2 was a carrying device,
something which can hold up to 40 pounds of cargo and was designed to
follow the individual who is imprinted on its “brain” which it
seemed to do readily. In fact, I was somewhat enthralled with the
device and I kind of challenged the sales rep about how the device
new to follow was ever in control/owner. He rather quickly showed me
and it kind of made sense and I'm sure it the whole operation
straight up. The sales rep indicated they are in the community trying
to build awareness and interest in the device for the general release
of the personal carrier later October or maybe November.
The
device is called Gita, I think the friendly version is myGita. If one
adds a.com to that name you go to the website where you can actually
see cute little videos of the device. It looks like the going to cost
around $3200 roughly when they do hit the market. Aside from the
cuteness I'm sure there's lots of folks who could use something like
this. I think the senior market could really be interesting. The only
problem I'm seeing is that if you have 40 pounds worth of materials
you still have to get them out of the Gita which would mean one has
to lean over and pull them out. I could use something like this to
take my clothes back and forth to the wash maybe even tote things
home from the market but still having to get the items out would be a
trip but maybe not I put the bag inside the device. I don't know how
this would work getting on public transit and I don't know how long I
would have it before I destroyed it one way or the other it's cute
though and what I think is really neat is that technology is finally
getting to a point of practicality for people with Disabilities…
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